PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN it A l l.V AV'TnhTE'T~iAV TTWV 90 1&1 Af 1 -L'. l -l i.4 l 4 It U Lt £U L N.J VT ±1NIK:!)J)A, 3 U N E ?O .8 19b THE CIVIL WAR: Medicine Was Nearly Fatalj American Legion Plans Miniature Government EDUCATION: Ann Arbor School Chosen For Aerial Television Classes : By PETER STEINBERGER The University's Civil War cen- tennial program opened yesterday with a medicalrdescription of a war "that started as a light- hearted stunt but ended up with 200,000 more casualties than World War II." Richard Shryock, a medical his- torian, told of field hospital condi- tions that made most penetrating wounds fatal, and of doctors who were sceptical of.traditional meas- ures( such as bleeding and purg- ing) but ignorant of European ad- vances in medicine. Lack Facilities Nor were the casualties only the result of ignorance. Many, who could have been saved, Shryock explained, were left on the battle- fields for two or three days because of a lack of ambulance facilities. "At Chancellorsville and the Wilderness shell fire set the trees burning, and many wounded were roasted to death," he noted. Staffs Inadequate "The medical staffs were inade- quate-each surgeon would have something like 900 cases on his hands after a battle. Anaethesia had been discovered just in time, but although doctors used carbolic acid on already infected wounds, they didn't use it to sterilize their instruments, or soldiers' fresh Wounds." This was because the theory that bacteria spread disease was "out- moded" at that time, and doctors thought that miasmas coming from filth spread the diseases through air, Shryock explained. "More soldiers died from diseases during the war than from wounds. Notes Needs In Community Development By DAVID MARCUS The multiplicity of skills nec- essary to grasp the total picture incommunity development make interdisciplinary work indispens- able, Prof. Richard L. Park of the political science department said yesterday. Lecturing after an informal pa- per bag luncheon attended main- ly by foreign students who are participating in a two-week sem- inar on community development at the University this summer, Park cited problems encountered by those who utilize only limited viewpoints in community plan- ning. He noted, for example, land rec- lamation projects in India that had lowered water tables in other areas thus causing hardship. He also pointed out a crop di- versification in a mountainous un- derdeveloped area that had been growing rice. The new crops were successful, but new roads had to be built to market them. He cited the problems of the Calcutta area as a sample of the need for interdisciplinary skills on a broad scale. "The city has only 38 per cent of the water supply it needs; the population is mushrooming unbe- lievably; only 7 per cent of the people live in housing which even meets minimal standards," he said. It is a problem combining tech- nical and social skills on which government workers, sociologists, economists, social workers and technicians will have to cooperate. He noted a conflict between 'whether economic development should be tied to social develop- ment or whether economic devel- opment alone will give the com- munities the necessary "shot in the arm to bring about social im- provements rapidly through in- creased wealth. Another aspect of the commu- nity development problems are the difficulties encountered by social field workers to which they are unable to devote enough time. He cited an Indian Planning, Re- search and Action Center which sends workers out in the field to find the answers to these ques- tions as a possible solution.. Servicemen were five times as likely to become sick-or to die from an infection-than the civil- ians. Corps Proud "But the Medical Corps was proud, and they had a right to be, because bad as the troops' health was, it had been much worse in previous wars. The great change came after the Civil War-there was only one-fourth of the Civil War mortality rate among World War I soldiers." The troops from rural areas got sick more often than urban troops, as did Southerners, generally, and Negroes. On the basis of the health records of the Negro troops, Shry- ock said, Army physicians were Peace Corps Takes Five From State The Peace Corps has selected five Michigan residents for train- ing prior to possible assignments in Tanganyika and Colombia. Frederick Y. McClusky, a resi- dent of Ann Arbor, began his training at Rutgers University this week for service in Colombia His father is Prof. Howard McCluskey of the education school. The Peace Corps volunteer studied psychology at Oberlin College. Ray C. Haselby, a University alumnus, is also scheduled for training prior to Colombian as- signment. He is a Detroit resident. Three Michigan men will be trained to assist I anganyikans in surveying and building secondary roads. Don Roger Preston of Battle Creek will receive training at Tex- as Western College, El Pa.. He is a graduate of the Michigan Col- lege of Mining and Technology at Houghton with a degree in forestry and surveying engineer- ing. Charles H. Barton of Traverse City has studied at the University and at Noithwest Michigan Col- lege at Traverse City. He has worked for the Forest Service in Minnesota and California. Also being trained in 'exas is Charles J. Lester of Roscommon, who has a degree in geology from Michigan State University and who has worked as a soil analyst. Forty trainees are competing for the 28 available assignments to Tanganyika. Of the 80 being trained for service in Colombia. a limited number will also be sent. Those who do riot leave with the first contingenst will be placed on a reserved list. City To Widen Five Blocks Of State Street Work has begun to widen five blocks of State Street from Mon- roe to Dewey streets. At present, workers are moving trees and utility polls to allow the Ann Arbor Public Works Com- mission project to add between five and eight to the street. This will mean an additional lane in each direction. Total cost of the project will be $72,000. The University is not contributing to the widening as such, but will pay $6,000 for con- struction of sidewalks on parts of the project that border University property. Eckstein Talks On Red China Prof. Alexander Eckstein of the economics department of the Uni- versity of Rochester will deliver an address entitled "Economic De- velopments in Communist China" at 4 p.m. today in Aud. A Angell Hall. His talk is the first in a lecture series on Communist China. predicting the eventual extinction of all American Negroes out of biological insufficiency. "The Army physicians concen- trated on specific diseases rather than the 'general state of the patient'," Shryock said. "This new approach was good in some ways, but doctors got more interested in diseases than in patients. "There was little that was basi- cally new in medicine that came out of the war. This is the case in most wars-it's the applied aspects that advance. New Discoveries "Some doctors had found out in the Napoleonic wars that maggots in wounds cleaned out the dead tissue and lessened infection, and some doctors found the same thing out in the Civil War. But these dis- coveries are used only by the im- mediate discoverers, and then for- gotten, the Civil War discovery about maggots was never generally known, and gradually it was for- gotten, only to be re-discovered in France in World War I." Shryock also pointed out that although the North suffered more casualties than the South, only the South is bitter about the Civil War. "It's the loss of personal prop- erty, and not of lives, that deter- mines whether people are bitter about war. My own family (in the North) was, but it had its home burnt by Confederates. And the Southerners, who do the remem- bering now, lost their property and power. Strohmeyer Starts Study Of Downtown The joint City Council-Chamber of Commerce study of the cen- tral business district and develop- ment of a master plan began shap- ing up Monday when the new pro- ject supervisor began his duties. Donald K. Strohmeyer, a Kan- sas State University instructor, will head the $42,500 study. Stroh- meyer holds a bachelor's and mas- ter's degree from Kansas State and has varied experience in architecture and city planning. Then central business district study will be financed by the chamber of commerce and the council. The council voted several weeks ago to participate in the study and appropriated $7,000 to get it rolling. The study will lead to a master plan for the business area that will tell the city and private busi- ness what must be done to re- vitalize the core of Ann Arbor. Various preliminary studies and surveys have already been made in preparation for the big push on the project that is expected to take a year. Strohmeyer will work full-time under the supervision of City Planning Director Robert M. Leary. As more money become available-the council will match funds raised by the chamber- Strohmeyer will get temporary help. * ~di By RUTH EVENHUIS Over 350 high school juniors are participating in the American Le- gion sponsored workshop in gov- ernment this week at the Univer- sity. Prof. Norman C. Thomas of the political science department is the Wolverine Girls' State govern- ment instructor. The girls conduct a miniature government on the local, county, and state level. Their days are used for organizing and running this government, while evenings are devoted to speakers on various aspects of government. Eighteen cities, six counties and two political parties are the or- ganizational framework within which the girls conduct election campaigns for such offices as county sheriff, treasurer and drain commissioner. Campaign Intensively Upon the election of city and county officials, intensely parti- san campaigning begins for the election of the governor. The two parties, "nationalists" and "fed- eralists," conduct nominating conventions during which "com- mitteewomen" and supporters of the candidates for the party's nomination make "deals" and "noise" respectively. Each party nominates a girl for lieutenant governor and for gov- ernor. Governors and lieutenant gov- ernors are elected toward the end of the nine day session in an eelction in which the Girls' State citizens learn the use of voting machines. Plan Mock Trial Judicial and legislative activi- ties are carried on simultaneously. The various city, county and state judges plan and execute a mock trial. The members of the legis- lature organize themselves into standing committees (Appropria- tions, Labor, Education, etc.) and form party alignments around elected majority and minority leaders. Speakers have included Mrs. Wilber M. Brucker, wife of the former Secretary of the Army, Mrs. Grace Marckwardt, Demo- cratic State Central Committee member, Mrs. Elly Peterson, vice- chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, Ann Arbor Mayor Cecil O. Creal, and Michi- gan Supreme Court Justice Theo- dore Souris. Wolverine Girls' State has been conducted annually since 1941 by the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion. Mrs. Clinton F. Smith is president of the 1961 Girls' State. The workshop in government, according to Mrs. Smith, is "to provide citizenship training for these high school juniors; to af- ford them an opportunity to live together as self-governing citi- zens; to inform them properly of the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of American citi- zenship in order that they may participate in the function of their own state government." Kathleen Sweeney -- who lives within sight of the State Capitol Building-was elected as governor of Wolverine Girls State. Miss Sweeney won the post in balloting for the 20th annual Girls' State at the University. She heads an administrative board made up of Lieutenant Governor Pat Sweet- land of East Lansing; Secretary of State Mary Koch of South Haven; Auditor General Susan Weidelman of Allen park; Attorney General Janet Cesario of Adrian, and Treasurer Geneva Tarrant of De- troit. ^, By SHARON MUSKOVITZ Beginning in September, Ann Arbor, along with several other cities throughout the country, will use the facilities of television as a medium of instruction. Telecasts will originate from air- planes instead of from television centers on the ground. The main reason for this new approacn is the technical difference involved. A signal sent from the air covers more than twice the area of a signal sent from the ground. Ann Arbor Superintendent of Schools, Jack Elzay, said, the Wines Elementary School has oeen chosen as a pilot school for thej program. The program covers elementary, secondary and col- lege levels of education but will only be used on the elementary level in Ann Arbor. Fields Vary "One classroom at each grade level will receive instruction in various fields including arithmetic. music, science, Spanish, and French," he said. "The program will operate four days a week and will be seen on special channels. These channels may be brought into private homes with the use of special attachments to regular television sets. "The Wines School was picked because it was thought that she same teachers would remain there for at least two years therefore assuring a careful evaluation of the program," Elzay said. He explained this program will enable more students to receive the benefits of gifted teachers and celebrities in various fields who could not personally reach each classroom. Students can also re- ceive educational experiences im- possible to manipulate on a small class level. Trips can be made to all parts of the country at the flick of a switch. A three week trial program was used last semester to test the ef- fectiveness of the broadcast un- der all weather conditions. Elzay said, the strength of the signal proved to be excellent. No test has yet been made on the ef- fectiveness of the program itself. The Superintendent assured that, "The Ann Arbor Punlic School system does nott consider this a replacement of the teacher. It is only being used as a supple- ment to the regular subject matter giving new approaches and in- formation. It is to be considered as another audial-visual aid of instruction. Instruction Pattern "It must also be determined whether or not the content of the pattern of instruction as it is presented on the air fits the con- tent in our pattern of instruction." Every school system using the program was allowed to submit the names of capable teachers. These names were then presented to a screening panel which made the sisted of educators from various parts of the area receiving the broadcasts. 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